How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 64
m-bodying strength and solemnity inthe Doric order. The Parthenon,which was a temple to the sover-eign deity of the city, is, as we haveseen, a superb example of this order. When the Athenians built tosome less serious ideal or for alighter purpose, they used a moregraceful and rather more… … r™ jgffgp* w FIG. 10 DORIC COLUMN FROM THE TEMPLE OF HERCULES, AGRI- GENTUM HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE grace and beauty, poetry, and music. These people, byreason of their Eastern habitat, must have come into con-tact with the Oriental peoples (Babylonians, Persians, andAssyrians), and when their…
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